James Mitchell is an Economic and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Previously he has held Professorial appointments at the Universities of Warwick and Leicester, and worked at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London. His research interests are in empirical macroeconomics, econometrics and forecasting. James holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Applied Econometrics and the International Journal of Forecasting.